The Creation of Feminist Consciousness (Magill Book Reviews)
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- Author: Gerda Lerner
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: History
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, History, Sociology
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Gender roles, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Education or educators, Poetry or poets, Feminism, Women’s issues, Eighteenth century, Seventeenth century, Women, Sixteenth century, Mysticism, Drama or dramatists, Western Europe or western Europeans, Middle Ages, Career women, Shakers
- Locales: Europe, United States
Ranging over the whole of Western history from prehistory to the late nineteenth century, Lerner examines the origins of patriarchy (in the first volume) and the long process by which women began to “think their way out” of their systematic subordination (in the present volume).
Lerner rigorously plumbs her disparate sources to help answer her question of how feminist consciousness developed. Such a consciousness could only emerge once autonomous women’sorganizations and a knowledge of women’s history were established. These were preconditions for a progressive...
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